OT: Then vs Now Programming WAS: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement

[Patrick Callahan]

It seems like this is a good thing. Not bothering with intense
hand-optimization means we can get more done and focus on designs that are
more flexible and easier to work with.
On Jun 13, 2013 12:31 PM, "James Mcphee" <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of the above.  With the resources available, we don't bother
> programming with limited pages of memory or do much disk caching and other
> tricks to maximize.
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> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
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>> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote:
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>> In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing,
>> building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation
>> from and located on the face of the reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran
>> ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote
>> locations) in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and
>> people came from all over the world to see what we were doing....now a
>> watch has more memory.....
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>> Time flies, and the only constant is change......
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>> Lyle has brought up a question that is interesting to me. I hear stories
>> like this of these amazing things people did with computers 30 and 40 years
>> ago and then the comment always comes up like "And we only had xx kb of
>> ram".
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>> So my question is, was programming in what ever language they used back
>> then more efficient and today's languages are seriously bloated and require
>> more ram, or do programmers today not know how to program as efficiently?
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>> Or what gives?
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